Get current username

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Hi, i'm trying to get the current username on Windows and Mac.

For Mac i found Environment.UserName but it returned NULL

Can anyone help me to do this on windows and Mac using Javascript code?

Thanks.

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Answer by dannyskim · Jan 02, 2012 at 09:23 PM

Environment.Username is the appropriate call, it works perfectly fine for me inside the editor.

I'm making an assumption here, but have you made sure you included the import System; at the top of your javascript file?

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jaramillo · Jan 02, 2012 at 09:34 PM 0

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Sorry i answered you in another in the next posted answer =P Thanks.

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Answer by cbordeman_unity · May 18, 2019 at 12:42 PM

The current user can mean many things. If you just want the profile logged into the device,

 string userName = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;

This gets the user the game is running as, which is safer than Environment.Username.

If your game is using OAuth or its own internal login system, then that won't work.

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shadow7412 · Feb 01 at 11:49 AM 0

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It should be fairly obvious by the name, but that API isn't cross-platform. Use it with care if you want your game to compile on non-windows machines.

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Answer by jaramillo · Jan 02, 2012 at 09:33 PM

Yes, i did. i don't know why it throws NULL but i already solved it. Thanks ;)

If anyone has this problem here's the solution.

System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) returns the current username on Windows and Mac

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cbordeman_unity · May 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM 1

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LOL no, it doesn't.

hacky97 · Apr 02, 2020 at 08:01 AM 0

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@cbordeman_unity , This post from more than 7 years ago that you reacted to is not something to LOL about.
This could potentially return the folder c:\users\\Documents. With some fiddling you can extract the username. Not very elegant, but it might be a solution if all else fails.

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